Thread:JayAaerow/@comment-6769189-20160603184312/@comment-6769189-20160626200015

DMC human world and demon world weren't the same. Just connected. Anyone could travel more or less freely between worlds

Again, Deadly Fortune does not take the place of DMC4. The events/dialogue that took place are not depictions of how the events took place are not bound to the story. so;

1) "On a whim" is only relevant to the novel

2) Trish doesn't actually know anything about Sparda or his motives. She is making presumptions based on her personal experience and feelings.

3) The Hellgate may very well be there because he planned to stay in Fortuna and guard it, which he did for a while. It was sealed underneath the city, unless he wanted to rebuild that area every few months it doesn't make sense that he would use it to go back.

4) Eva said Sparda "had courage and a rightious heart" and "fought for peace"

From almost every angle the novel is too contradictory to the series canon to take it for its word.